The median home in Guernsey County listed for $164,250 in January, down 4.2% from the previous month’s $171,450, an analysis of data from Realtor.com shows.

Compared to January 2023, the median home list price decreased 14.5% from $192,200.

The statistics in this article only pertain to houses listed for sale in Guernsey County, not houses that were sold. Information on your local housing market, along with other useful community data, is available at data.dispatch.com.

Guernsey County’s median home was 1,552 square feet, listed at $106 per square foot. The price per square foot of homes for sale is down 0.9% from January 2023.

Listings in Guernsey County moved steadily, at a median 72 days listed compared to the January national median of 69 days on the market. In the previous month, homes had a median of 51 days on the market. Around 20 homes were newly listed on the market in January, a 33.3% decrease from 30 new listings in January 2023.

The median home prices issued by Realtor.com may exclude many, or even most, of a market’s homes. The price and volume represent only single-family homes, condominiums or townhomes. They include existing homes, but exclude most new construction as well as pending and contingent sales.

Across the Cambridge metro area, median home prices fell to $171,950, down 0.1% from a month earlier. The median home had 1,571 square feet, at a list price of $109 per square foot.

In Ohio, median home prices were $245,000, a slight decrease from December. The median Ohio home listed for sale had 1,680 square feet, with a price of $144 per square foot.

Throughout the United States, the median home price was $409,500, a slight decrease from the month prior. The median American home for sale was listed at 1,823 square feet, with a price of $221 per square foot.

The median home list price used in this report represents the midway point of all the houses or units listed over the given period of time. Experts say the median offers a more accurate view of what’s happening in a market than the average list price, which would mean taking the sum of all listing prices then dividing by the number of homes sold. The average can be skewed by one particularly low or high price.

The USA TODAY Network is publishing localized versions of this story on its news sites across the country, generated with data from Realtor.com. Please leave any feedback or corrections for this story here. This story was written by Ozge Terzioglu.

This article originally appeared on The Daily Jeffersonian: Guernsey County home listings asked for less money in January – see the current median price here